Hurricane Irma claims top $5.5 billion

Potential insured losses in Florida from Hurricane Irma have surpassed $5.5 billion, according to the state Office of Insurance Regulation.

As of Friday, 795,970 claims had been filed, worth an estimated $5.567 billion.

The numbers are up from 772,934 claims and $5.3 billion in potential losses a week earlier. Hurricane Irma made landfall Sept. 10 in Monroe County and Collier County before pounding through much of the state. Two-thirds of the claims are from homeowners. The top counties for claims are, in order: Miami-Dade, Broward, Orange, Lee and Collier.

One of every eight claims has come from Miami-Dade County.

The Office of Insurance Regulation, which doesn’t provide a breakdown of the claims by insurer, is updating the numbers once a week.

Just over 28.5 percent of the claims had been settled with payments. Nearly 20 percent of the claims had been closed without payment.